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Jun 22, 2013

I am researching this contemporary artist,
as my last duty for my MA degree in History of
Art.

Learn about his work and watch this video, taken in an
exhibitionin Berlin, last year.It represents most of his latest work.

Eliasson creates for us, the spectators, experiences and phenomena,
and invites to take an active part in them and, in fact,
to be elements in his artistic work.
(Look at the people performing with their multi-shadows…)

I wander:

What is the difference between his artistic works
and the spectacles we see in amusement parks like
“Disney World”?
Does the fact that his creations are exhibited in museums,
makes them pieces of Art?

I am trying to answer these questions in my small
and humble
research thesis…

So,

What does all of this have to do with jewelry???

Well, Nothing!

…Except for the fact that I am the same person who makes the
jewelry…And maybe, maybe, certain featuresecho my studying
of Art…

For instance, here are my “astronomic” earrings,
which are reminiscent of celestial objects:

Jun 7, 2013

What Was Once Upon a Time?

As you know, I trek
with my group in the desert,
and I want to share with you this experience.
I am going to tell you about one of the desert delights:

The Caper Bush:

In contrast to the dry and harsh desert conditions, it is
ever-green.
Look at its delicate flower.
Its’ blossom, in the desert barren
lands,looks like a fata morgana (mirage).

There is a wonderful legend about this enigmatic bush:

Once
upon a time....there was king.

(There is always a king in legends!)

And the king had a daughter.
(There is no legend without a princess!)
She was (but of course) beautiful, and clever.
She was in her prime.

But one day ( there is always “one day”),
the king noticed that she was not well.
As the days passed, she grew thinner and weaker.
Desperate as he was, and after no remedy has been found,
the king asked his citizens for help.

And there was this young and poor shepherd,who came to the palace and offered a bizarre
remedy,a caper bush.

??????

No one believed he could cure the princess with this
odd thing, so he was driven out of the palace!

Before leaving, the poor shepherd planted the
caper bush near the palace wall.

The bush, accustomed to grow anywhere,
climbed high and reached to the princess’s window.
One day, seeing its wonderful flower,
she opened the window and cried

“WOW!”

A branch of the bush entered her open
mouth,lodged in her throat,
and when she stepped back frightened,
the branch came out with a huge leech
stuck to its’ curved thorn…

This was her salvation!

Where was the shepherd?
Did they get married and live happily ever after?

If it is like in the tales, then – Yes, Oh , Yes!
But frankly - I don’t know...

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Speaking about flowers, here is another flower jewel of mine

https://www.etsy.com/listing/152824322/

Did you like going back to the fairy-tale land?
I’d like you very much to comment down below .